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- noun Plural form of
potholer .
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Examples
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At Porto Santo Stefano on the mainland, a team of divers from the voluntary organisation that rescues potholers in Italy had arrived and was preparing to join in the hunt for survivors.
Cruise ship scene marked by modern totem of disaster in medieval harbour 2012
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With artificial hips clicking in protest, I used the kind of painful shuffling technique not unknown to potholers to reverse every step of the way I had come across the rocks.
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"I envisaged him as rather like dropping a couple of potholers into a complex of caves," says Harris.
Christina Patterson: "A Writer Close to the Power Elite": Interview With Robert Harris 2009
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This film is possibly only of interest to potholers.
I Did This So You Don’t Have To – Part 4 « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2008
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Climbers and potholers get a bit hot under the collar about having to pay what they see as exorbitant fees upfront and outrageous costs of an actual rescue:
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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The six British potholers freed from a cave underneath the Mexican jungle yesterday shared a detention centre for illegal immigrants with eastern European lap-dancers awaiting deportation ....
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But unlike George, who had learned the virtue of patience, he saw no advantage in waiting for the trained potholers to arrive.
A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999
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Each year, around 160,000 tourists make the trip to Pottenstein but, unlike the original potholers, they don't have to crawl on their bellies through mud to access the main g eological formations.
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Each year, around 160,000 tourists make the trip to Pottenstein but, unlike the original potholers, they don't have to crawl on their bellies through mud to access the main g eological formations.
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Each year, around 160,000 tourists make the trip to Pottenstein but, unlike the original potholers, they don't have to crawl on their bellies through mud to access the main g eological formations.
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